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Additionally in different parts of Germany the gender of many nouns is different.
by _Codemonkeyism 7y ago
Additionally in different parts of Germany the gender of many nouns is different.
- tasogare 7y agoInteresting fact, can you give an example or two?
- Quequau 7y agoNutella is always the word that springs to my mind first... but I couldn't tell you which article is used where.
- akuji1993 7y agoActually you can't really say this: https://german.stackexchange.com/questions/8527/wer-sagt-die-nutella/8546 https://german.stackexchange.com/questions/8527/wer-sagt-die... See the map in this thread. It's basically different in any county and different counties can be right next to each other.
- tasogare 7y agoNutella is a proper noun and also a loanword, I was expecting native common noun pairs. (Btw the issue exists in French too for this word, and a few others like Wifi or Gameboy)
- kayoone 7y agoI am a native speaker but can't think of any, care to give an example?
- Quequau 7y agoI learned German in Austria and I was taught a handful of words which we use a different article here as compared to in Germany. My recollection is that most of these words either were commercial, like Nutella, or loan words coming from other languages (e.g. not every loan word is neutral). But while I did eventually get my C1, my German isn't great so I don't want to claim any expertise.
- majewsky 7y agoNutella is a pathological example. It's a running gag among German speakers that they cannot figure out its gender. The discussion usually ends when someone suggests something like "das Nutellaglas" ("the jar of Nutella"), i.e. building a compound word so that the other part of the word imposes its gender. EDIT: This may be interesting for you though. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:German_nouns_which_have_all_three_genders https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:German_nouns_which_h...
- _Codemonkeyism 7y agoDie Nutella.
- lorenzhs 7y agoAn example that comes to mind is butter. It's feminine (die Butter), but in some dialects, it's masculine (der Butter). There are maps for several other words at http://www.atlas-alltagssprache.de/runde-5/f15a-f/ http://www.atlas-alltagssprache.de/runde-5/f15a-f/, but I'd take them with a grain of salt. The region I grew up in doesn't really match what these maps say about it.
- hef19898 7y agoOh, I know certain people in Bavaria calling "das Butter", suspicious people no doubt! Everybody knows it is "die Butter" with an option to settle for "der Butter"!
- wolfgke 7y agoHere you can find examples: https://infothek.rotkel.de/rechtschreibung/genus.html https://infothek.rotkel.de/rechtschreibung/genus.html A well-known example is "die/das Tram" (rather a Helvetism; this words means the same as in English; the more usual German word is "die Straßenbahn). In Standard German, "Tram" is considered as an abbreviation of "die Trambahn" - so it is female. In South Germany and Switzerland, "das Tram" is used.
- raphman 7y ago- der/das Teller - der/die Butter - das/die Huhn see e.g., https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/zwiebelfisch/zwiebelfisch-der-butter-die-huhn-das-teller-a-432890.html https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/zwiebelfisch/zwiebelfisch-der-... (German) for more local linguistic peculiarities.
- _Codemonkeyism 7y agoSorry don't have any at hand, but I'm from Bavaria and my wife is from Brandenburg so our German gender usage sometimes differs.
- hef19898 7y agoWith regards to dialects, that is reckless risk taking! :-)
- wenc 7y agoDer Joghurt / Das Joghurt / Die Joghurt. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Joghurt https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Joghurt More examples here https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:German_nouns_which_have_all_three_genders https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:German_nouns_which_h...